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[akronmarbles]

Bored at work...some ceramic marbles from Akron :-)

[catfish]

Nice! Not too often I get to see these.

[richsantaclaus]

I love looking at ceramic marbles! Just beautiful!!!

[Ric]

Your boredom is our gain. I like these a lot, especially the Jasper-ish looking ones. And like Derrick, I don't get to see them very often. Thanks for sharing.

[mmuehlba]

Are those from the digging you did and got the little toys? Mike

[akronmarbles]

Thanks...these are nut dug. I used dug fragments from the factory site to help identify these in the wild - shows and ebay. The group above took me 15 years to assemble. The largest examples in the pic are 2" in size.

[lstmmrbls]

Are the crockery types different color clay mixed or painted on glaze?

[akronmarbles]

They are true jaspers...different colors of clay mixed. Very hard to find. I know of about 20 - the ones I own and a few that Hansel has.

[BuckEyeDr]

Brian, i need to come down and check out the museum,i am sure I could learn a ton. I am only thirty minutes away in brecksville. I have a few very interesting slags i need your opinion on. By the way, those are beautiful!

Craig

[Poplarhead]

Hard not to like ceramics and stones....

[Ric]

Nice collection Don. I like the crockery/stoneware marbles and I sure would like to learn more about them. Could anyone show some American Majolicas, or perhaps provide some thoughts on this? Is it just an odd greenish Bennington? Thanks.

[winnie]

Never saw a Bennington with that color Ric.

It's nice to see pottery marbles that are made in America.

Some boring ceramics that i found here LOL.
winnie

[Ric]

Nice, Winnie. You have some nice looking Jaspers in there. I also like the mostly white Benningtons with blue eye spots. And I'm not so sure that greenish thing I showed is a Bennington. I was sort of thinking maybe American Majolica but . . .?

[akronmarbles]

American Majolica - very rare. This one is about 2". This was made by the American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Company.

[akronmarbles]

Distinctive Akron blue glaze color. Not seen on German made ceramic marbles.

[Road Dog]

Any ideas on this one ya'll? Doesn't look like any Bennington I've seen. It's 1 3/8" and has no eyes.

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[Ric]

Wow, Brian. I really like that American Majolica - great marble! Thanks a lot for posting the pics and info. And that cobalt blue is pretty distinctive, but I'm thinking it's going to take me quite a while to really "get it". It seems that some of the Akron marbles don't show any, or as many, significant "eyes" like I'm used to seeing on Benningtons, and most of the Akrons I've seen don't seem to have as complete of color coverage as most of the Benningtons I've seen either. Could you please provide a brief statement of comparison with respect to those two features? Thanks Again.

[akronmarbles]

Road...that one looks German to me..Ric - yours may be Akron...would need to see it in hand.
The Akron blue is copper based....there are examples with lots of eyes, but most examples from Akron were fired in a flat tray and were not touching the marbles next to them. There are examples with complete coverage as well. I can still tell them apart though.

[1DanS]

found another one:

1 1/2"




and "maybe" this one:

1 5/16"


thanks.

[akronmarbles]

OOOH...is the second one for sale? I like it!